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Kath. Kirche St. Josef, Hauptstr. 152
The oldest catholic church –
only 100 years old?

This church, which served as a parish church for the first Catholics of Denzlingen between 1912 and 1976, was built in Emmendingen according to plans by Heinrich Hübsch. When a new, larger church was planned there, the Catholics of Denzlingen were allowed to transport the building here stone by stone on ox carts and rebuild it as St. Josef's Church. From now on it was the parish church of Denzlingen’s Catholics until it became too small in 1975.

You are in front of the portal of the first Catholic church dedicated to St. Josef. Since the introduction of the "New Church Constitution" in the year 1556 all inhabitants have been Evangelicals.

Only with industrialization in the 19th and then increasingly in the 20th century did a large number of Catholics come to Denzlingen. They settled mainly in the Oberdorf. There they built the first Catholic church in 1911, which was consecrated 1912. The building was previously located in Emmendingen, where a new, larger church had been built.

While blessed Bernard of Baden stood in the gable niche above the portal in Emmendingen, the Archangel Michael can be seen there today.